People

BA Hons Design For Industry from Newcastle Polytechnic.Summer placement with Moggridge Associates / IDEO consultancy.SeymourPowell - Five exciting and productive years with this dynamic creative team growing from graduate to senior designer.

Co-founder of The Product Group in 1989.

Best bits: coastline or hill walking, cycling till I drop, theatre or film that make me think. Making a difference.Inspired by the engineering, beauty and sheer inventiveness of the natural world.

Adam Yates Managing Director

Adrian Miller Engineering Director

Having had far too much fun launching perfumery brands, Account Directing for the coolest agency in the West End, and as International PR Co-Ordinator for a Swiss based global brand, and then a serious stint in the Public Affairs hot seat, Collette left the Smoke and relocated lock stock and two small kids to Hadrian’s Wall Country. The children have grown and flown and the agency she founded is still her baby.

Collett Fellows-SmithPR & Marketing Director

Amy takes tenacity to another level. You not only know that a job will get done when Amy takes it on, you know she will have every aspect of it fully researched, lined up and sorted out from the word “go”. Switched on and socially aware, Amy is tuned in to whatever is happening on Facebook, in the Twittersphere and online anywhere.

Amy GlassFit Director

Born and raised in Wellington, New ZealandAge 6: Forms an unhealthy relationship with a silver 1982 Mini LE (which continues to present day)Massey University Wellington School of Design, Bdes Hons in Industrial Design2001-2004: In-house designer at Future Products Group, Napier, New Zealand (Sheet metal, joinery and refrigeration manufacturer).2004-Present: Departs New Zealand for big OE (overseas experience) to the UK, taking up position as Product Designer at The Product Group.I enjoy the challenge of coming up with solutions during the product development process. I also like spending my spare time riding bikes (both on and off road).